i30 Builders · Tarrant County
Fence, Deck and Patio Cover Contractor in Fort Worth, TX
Custom fences, patio covers, kitchens, baths and additions across Fort Worth, TX, big or small.
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Who builds custom home projects in Fort Worth, TX?
i30 Builders, a general contractor based in Royse City, TX, builds custom fences, patio covers, outdoor kitchens, concrete, decks and additions in Fort Worth, TX, and custom kitchens and baths, large projects and small ones. Every job is priced in writing after a site walk, before any deposit, with permits handled.
- Pricing
- Written price after a site walk, before any deposit
- Permits
- Handled by us
- Warranty
- One-year workmanship warranty, in writing
- Insurance
- $1M GL + $1M Umbrella, certificate on request
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The Work
Fences, decks and patio covers.
What the City of Fort Worth requires
Fort Worth keeps its fence rules in Section 5.305 of the zoning ordinance and its permit line in the building administrative code.
- Most backyard fences need no building permit.
- The city's residential permitting page draws the line: a permit for a solid fence over seven feet, an open fence over eight feet, or a retaining wall over four feet. The front yard is where the rules bite.
- No fence or wall goes in a required, platted or projected front yard except an open design fence: four feet at most, in wrought iron, tubular steel, picket or something similar, no more than 50 percent solid, and never chain link. Columns may reach five feet six inches.
- A solid front yard fence up to four feet, or an open one up to five, takes a special exception from the Board of Adjustment, and the five foot open fence also needs consent from the neighbors beside you and across the street.
- On a corner lot, the side yard along the street can count as a projected front yard, tied to the setback of the house next door, and the same front yard limits apply there.
- Behind the front building line, a fence around a home stops at eight feet.
- Height is measured from the highest grade next to the fence to the top of the fence or its gate.
- At a street corner, nothing over two feet goes inside a triangle 20 feet back each way from the corner of the lot.
- Put a fence in an easement that carries underground utilities and the owner signs a release holding the city harmless when the fence has to come out for a repair.
- Only a homeowner pulling a permit on their own homestead skips contractor registration.
- Every other permit holder registers each year, $178.00 under the fee schedule effective 1 October 2026.
- The city's registration page still shows the older $168.75, and the adopted schedule governs.
Source: Read from the fence section of the zoning ordinance on American Legal, the 2021 Building Administrative Code, the city's residential permitting and contractor registration pages and its development fee schedule on 26 October 2026. Codes and fees change and city staff interpret them, so we confirm for your address before we pull the permit.
Decks, patio covers and backyard buildings
Fort Worth draws its deck line far lower than most cities. Its building administrative code exempts only platforms, walks and decks no more than six inches above grade.
- Anything higher needs a building permit, and where it may sit depends on the lot's zoning.
- A patio cover attached to the house is filed as a residential addition, and a new carport, shed or workshop as a new accessory building.
- Section 5.301 of the zoning ordinance sizes a shed or workshop by the lot: 120 square feet on a lot under 5,000 square feet, 200 square feet up to 9,999, 400 square feet up to just under an acre, and 2 percent of the lot past that, counting every such building together.
- It stays one story, no taller than the house, and sits behind the back wall of the house or at least 75 feet from the front property line, whichever is easier to meet.
- The city's accessory building packet sets the side and rear setback by height: five feet for a building up to ten feet tall, seven feet at eleven, and nine feet at twelve, which is the tallest allowed without a variance.
- Nothing goes in a front yard or in any easement, and a metal building needs engineering.
- Fort Worth's amended residential code wants every footing it regulates designed and sealed by a Texas registered engineer, and it adds a rule that outside stairs and ramps keep at least three feet of fire separation distance.
- The city builds to the 2021 International Residential Code under Ordinance 25383-03-2022, and its 2026 National Electrical Code took effect on 1 September 2026.
- First review comments on a residential permit come back within seven business days.
- In the city's 14 historic districts, Fairmount and Mistletoe Heights among them, exterior work such as a fence, a deck, a porch or an addition needs a Certificate of Appropriateness before any permit, and staff can approve most of them.
The ground under a Fort Worth fence
Fort Worth is different ground from the cities east of Dallas on this site. Clipped to the city limits, about 91 percent of its mapped soil falls in the Tarrant County soil survey, with the rest in the Denton, Parker, Wise and Johnson surveys.
- Houston Black, the clay under most of those eastern pages, is not among its main soils.
- Sanger clay is the largest at about 16 percent, then Aledo at about 11, Slidell and Bolar at about 6 each, and Ponder and Purves at about 5 each.
- The USDA leaves 29 percent of the city unrated, mostly Urban land, water and fill.
- Of the ground the survey does rate, 62 percent is high or very high for shrink-swell across the top three feet, but only 11 percent is very high, a small fraction of the very high share east of Dallas. Sanger is the clay to watch.
- The USDA describes it as very deep and very slowly permeable, and when it dries it cracks one to three inches wide to more than 20 inches deep.
- Slidell cracks too, and its cracks stay open 90 to 150 cumulative days in most years.
- Aledo is the opposite problem: a shallow soil over hard limestone 9 to 20 inches down, where a post hole or a deck pier can hit rock before it reaches depth.
- So two Fort Worth yards a few miles apart can need very different footings, and we look up the soil for the address before we quote.
Source: Soil figures computed by us from USDA-NRCS SSURGO map units clipped to the Census city boundary and rated by linear extensibility over the top 36 inches, the method that returns this site's published Plano and Dallas figures; these are city-level figures, not parcel-level. A specific address needs its own lookup, which we do before quoting a long run.
Built in Fort Worth
The rules for one project, and the one we built here.
- Composite and Wood Decks in Fort WorthWe build decks in Fort Worth and pull the permit. Composite or wood, the city wants that permit once the deck floor sits more than 6 inches off the ground.
- Custom Carpentry and Built-Ins in Fort WorthWe design and build custom built-ins in Fort Worth, made to fit your walls, and we pull the permit when the work needs one. Bookcases, window seats, media walls and paneled rooms.
Our Services in Fort Worth
What we build.
Fence Installation and Repair
Board-on-board, horizontal, and ornamental steel. Measured on your line, priced in writing after the walk.
Cedar, horizontal and iron
Deck Building and Restoration
New builds, rebuilds, and bringing a weathered deck back rather than replacing it.
New builds and restoration
Patio Covers, Pavilions and Pergolas
Roofed cedar pavilions and open-top pergolas, on flatwork built to carry them.
Cedar covers, pavilions, pergolas
Outdoor Kitchens
Built-in grill islands and full outdoor kitchens, with the utilities run properly and a roof over them.
Grills, islands, power and gas
Concrete Patios, Walks and Driveways
Reinforced patios, walks, pads and driveways, built on a base that expects the clay to move.
Patios, walks, pads, drives
Travertine Patios, Walkways and Pool Decks
French pattern and straight lay, patios, walkways, steps and pool decks, set on a base built to hold them.
Patios, pool decks, walkways
Retaining Walls
Stone and block walls for slopes, raised beds and level yards, built for the clay they sit in.
Stone and block, engineered
French Drains and Yard Drainage
French drains, surface drains, buried downspout lines and regrading, so water leaves the yard instead of sitting in it.
French drains and grading
Room Additions
A bedroom, a bigger living room, a primary suite or a second living area, built onto the house so it looks and feels like it was always there.
New rooms tied into the house
Custom Kitchen Remodeling
Whole-room remodels and planned changes to part of the room, mid-grade to high-end, with cabinetry built to fit. Not a countertop swap.
Layouts, cabinetry, finishes
Custom Bathroom Remodeling
Primary and guest baths, taken back to the studs and rebuilt to a plan. Not a tub-to-shower kit, and not a cosmetic refresh.
Showers, wet rooms, vanities
Wet Rooms and Curbless Showers
The shower and tub in one waterproofed room, or a shower you walk straight into. No curb, no step, and no water where it should not be.
Curbless showers, one wet zone
Home Offices with Custom Built-Ins
A desk wall, cabinetry and shelving built to fit the room, with the outlets, data, lighting and quiet a real workday needs.
Desks, cabinetry, built-ins
Custom Home Gyms
A room built for the way you train: the floor, the walls, the power, the air and the mounting points, planned around the equipment.
Floors, mirror walls, power, cooling
Wet Bars, Butler's Pantries and Wine Rooms
A bar with a sink and an ice maker, a pantry between the kitchen and the dining room, or a glass wine room that holds its temperature through a Texas August. Drawn to the space and built to fit it.
Bars, pantries, wine rooms
Fireplace Remodels, TV Walls and Feature Walls
A new surround and mantel, a wall built for the TV with the wires inside it, cedar beams across the ceiling. The living room's main wall and ceiling, planned together and built to fit.
Surrounds, TV walls, cedar beams
Media Rooms and Game Rooms
A room built for the screen and the sound. Walls that keep the noise in, lights that dim without glare, seating and storage built to the room, and every wire run before the drywall closes.
Sound, lighting, seating, wiring
Whole-Home Remodeling
The kitchen, the baths, the floors and the rooms between them, planned together and built in one sequence, with one person to call from the first walk to the punch list.
Several rooms, one written scope
Aging-in-Place Bathrooms
A bathroom you can keep using at any age or after a surgery: no step into the shower, a seat, bars where hands reach, and doors wide enough, without the room looking like a hospital.
Curbless entry, grab bars, seats
Custom Closets and Dressing Rooms
Walk-in closets and dressing rooms laid out around what you own, with cabinetry built to the walls and light you can match clothes by.
Closet systems, islands, lighting
Mudrooms and Laundry Rooms
A drop zone at the door your family actually uses, and a laundry room laid out in the order the laundry moves, with the plumbing, power and venting planned behind it.
Lockers, benches, counters, sinks
Built-Ins and Custom Millwork
Bookcases, window seats, media walls and paneled rooms drawn to your walls and finished in place, so they read as part of the house rather than furniture against it.
Bookcases, window seats, paneling
Stair Remodels and Railings
Carpeted stairs rebuilt in wood, worn treads replaced, and rails and balusters changed out in steel or wood, with every step and guard kept to code.
Treads, risers, rails, balusters
Garage Conversions
Turn the garage into a bedroom, an office, a gym or a guest suite that reads as part of the house from the street and from the hallway.
Bedrooms, offices, gyms, suites
Sunrooms and Patio Enclosures
The covered patio you already have, closed in with framed walls, windows and a door, then insulated, cooled and finished like the room beside it.
Patios closed in and cooled
ADUs, Casitas and Guest Houses
A guest house, casita or backyard suite, designed for your lot and your city's rules, then built from the foundation to the final inspection.
Guest houses, casitas, suites
Screened Porches and Retractable Screens
Screen walls on the patio cover you have, or a new porch built for them, with fixed panels, motorized screens that roll down at the touch of a button, or a mix.
Screen walls, motorized screens
Outdoor Fireplaces and Fire Pits
A masonry fireplace under the patio cover, a gas fire table by the pool or a wood-burning pit out in the yard, set where the fire rules allow and built on a footing that holds.
Masonry fireplaces, fire pits
Pool Cabanas and Pool Houses
Shade by the water, a place to change and rinse off, a half bath so nobody drips through the house, and the pool gear out of sight, in a building that matches the house.
Cabanas, pool houses, showers
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Before you build in Fort Worth
Neighborhoods we serve in Fort Worth
From Tanglewood, Ridglea and Arlington Heights to Fairmount, Mistletoe Heights and Wedgwood, and north to Heritage and the Alliance corridor, we build fences, decks, patio covers and built-ins across Fort Worth, along I-30, I-35W, I-20 and Loop 820. Fort Worth ISD, Keller ISD, Northwest ISD and Crowley ISD all serve parts of the city. Fourteen of its older neighborhoods are historic districts with their own review on top of the permit, so we check your lot before anything else.
- Tanglewood
- Ridglea
- Arlington Heights
- Fairmount
- Mistletoe Heights
- Wedgwood
- Heritage
- Chisholm Trail Ranch
Fort Worth Questions
Home project questions in Fort Worth
Do I need a permit to build a fence in Fort Worth?
For most backyard fences, no. Fort Worth wants a building permit for a solid fence over seven feet, an open fence over eight feet, or a retaining wall over four feet. The front yard limits apply whether or not a permit is needed.
How tall can a front yard fence be in Fort Worth?
Four feet, in an open design such as wrought iron or picket, no more than half solid, and never chain link. A solid fence there, or an open one up to five feet, takes a special exception from the Board of Adjustment.
Does my deck need a permit in Fort Worth?
If any part of the floor sits more than six inches above grade, yes. Fort Worth exempts only platforms, walks and decks at six inches or less, so a raised deck off the back door is permit work.
How big can a backyard shed or workshop be in Fort Worth?
It depends on the lot. 120 square feet under 5,000 square feet of lot, 200 up to 9,999, 400 up to just under an acre, then 2 percent of the lot, for every such building combined. It sits behind the back wall of the house or 75 feet from the front property line.
I live in a Fort Worth historic district. What changes?
Outside work such as a fence, a deck, a porch or an addition needs a Certificate of Appropriateness before the permit. Staff approve most of them, and the Landmarks Commission hears only the larger cases, such as new construction and demolition.
Can I pull the permit myself in Fort Worth?
Only for work on a home you own and live in as your homestead. Anyone else who pulls a permit has to hold a current Fort Worth contractor registration, so it is fair to ask any bidder whether theirs is current.
Get a written estimate in Fort Worth
Tell us what you want built and roughly how big. We walk it, then price the scope in writing, and the price does not move unless the scope does.
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